Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

STOPPARD, Tom.

Item Number: 144300

New York: Grove Press, 1967.

First American edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kuhlman Associates.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end. "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead [is] verbally dazzlingthe most exciting, witty intellectual treat imaginable." (Edith Oliver, The New Yorker).